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PonyPony Registered User regular
So, I got a lot of free time on my hands these days and I spend a lot of it watching Youtube. I'm going to share with you one of my favorite things on Youtube, Crash Course:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yocja_N5s1I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnQe0xW_JY4

Done by the Green Brothers (Hank and John), Crash Course is a youtube series that sums up in 10-15 minute chunks a wide variety of academic topics. John's end of Crash Course handles the humanities (art, literature, history) while Hank focuses on the hard sciences like chemistry and biology.

They're pretty god damn amazing and you can learn a whole lot from them. Are they comprehensive? No, by their very nature they're summaries of topics. But if you ever wanted an intro to studying something like the Indus Valley civilization, the Great Gatsby, or atomic chemistry, the Green brothers have a fantastic launching point. All of their videos are cited and sourced and can lead you on to a fantastic journey of learning and discovery.

You can also check out Hank's side project, Sci Show, which is about science news and interesting scientific topics you might've wondered about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3bjUu_ONjc

What's some of the cool, edifying stuff you watch on the internet, [chat]?

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    skippydumptruckskippydumptruck begin again Registered User regular
    authorized thread go

    backup thread is extraneous and must be terminated

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    Sir LandsharkSir Landshark resting shark face Registered User regular
    GOOBY YOURE A LOOSE CANNON

    TURN IN YOUR BADGE AND YOUR GUN

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    DelmainDelmain Registered User regular
    Those are the Vlog brothers right? Those guys are great.

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    Sir LandsharkSir Landshark resting shark face Registered User regular
    I had a period where I binged on all the finance and economics vids on Khan Academy. Pretty interesting stuff.

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    PonyPony Registered User regular
    Delmain wrote: »
    Those are the Vlog brothers right? Those guys are great.

    Yes.

    They're the vlogbrothers and run nerdfighters and a bunch of other things.

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    DelmainDelmain Registered User regular
    vlogbrothers are bestbrothers.

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    HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
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    MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    The China bashing is fun to read. Especially as a I share with my friend who also has focused on studying China.

    It is so bad.

    So so bad.

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    GooeyGooey (\/)┌¶─¶┐(\/) pinch pinchRegistered User regular
    nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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    PonyPony Registered User regular
    Other cool shit I watch on youtube:

    Minutephysics:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4c-gX9MT1Q

    Veritasium:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F69uqDIhr60

    Vsauce:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHZAaGidUbg

    CGPGrey:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AivEQmfPpk

    this is the kind of shit that makes Youtube my primary source of entertainment

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    bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    Going to repost because this is actually really cool use of the kinect

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPyjvfLZdF8

    also because this is a better chat

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    TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    I am stoked about seeing Bo Burnham tomorrow

    Another comedian off the bucket list

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    21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    i just melted some chocolate chips and ate a whole bowl of 'em.

    FUCK THE POLICE.

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    GooeyGooey (\/)┌¶─¶┐(\/) pinch pinchRegistered User regular
    also because this is a better chat

    *pulls out a notepad*

    *writes something down*

    *puts away the notepad*

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    JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    @pony thom and I have gotten into the habit of trading old-timey educational newsreels about mechanics

    it takes only a minute or two to get over the presentation and then it turns out that a lot of them are really goddamned good

    like this one about how differentials work may be one of the best teaching tools I've ever seen:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJY9SxDOTog

    or this Army training movie about fluid couplings:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leCEmJA0WsI

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    RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Justice is served! Phoenix Wright would be pleased.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyqAgewtlT0

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    GimGim a tall glass of water Registered User regular
    I don't wanna seem like I am so down on china, trashing it in every post. I am having fun, the food is pretty tasty, and it's fun seeing another culture. The hotel I'm staying in is pretty nice and everyone has been very friendly.

    That said if one more person tells me "America doesn't have history" or "I have tried KFC and McDonalds and I prefer Chinese food" (I have heard these two lines from every single Chinese person I have met for more than 10 minutes or eaten with), I may light the air on fire. Which may be possible. This photo was taken 5 minutes ago and it's always like this:
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    Tell me, have you seen Turok running around?

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    EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    Crash Course science is fairly good stuff but I can't watch anything that distills and reduces history into sound bites

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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    PonyPony Registered User regular
    I've been watching a lot of Vice lately

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUnobHHAKxo

    their stuff is all over the map, some of it is fascinating documentary on global events, some of it is stuff about surfing or skateboarding

    i started watching a thing on captive brides in Kyrgyzstan recently but had to stop because it was making me feel physically sick with anger

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    simonwolfsimonwolf i can feel a difference today, a differenceRegistered User regular
    Alright, it is 10.30am

    got a doctor's appointment re: my crohns in the afternoon

    and a whole day ahead of internally stressing over when/how I am supposed to next communicate with the girl from yesterday

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    bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    Gim wrote: »
    I don't wanna seem like I am so down on china, trashing it in every post. I am having fun, the food is pretty tasty, and it's fun seeing another culture. The hotel I'm staying in is pretty nice and everyone has been very friendly.

    That said if one more person tells me "America doesn't have history" or "I have tried KFC and McDonalds and I prefer Chinese food" (I have heard these two lines from every single Chinese person I have met for more than 10 minutes or eaten with), I may light the air on fire. Which may be possible. This photo was taken 5 minutes ago and it's always like this:
    china_out_window.jpg

    Tell me, have you seen Turok running around?

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    surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    The China bashing is fun to read. Especially as a I share with my friend who also has focused on studying China.

    It is so bad.

    So so bad.

    IT REALLY IS OMG

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    LoserForHireXLoserForHireX Philosopher King The AcademyRegistered User regular
    Okay, so I JUST started watching Don't Trust the B in Apt 23 since it hit Netflix.

    I am sad that I never watched this show while it was on air. The Beek is probably the most amazing thing that has happened.

    "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
    "We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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    syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products regular
    Going to repost because this is actually really cool use of the kinect

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPyjvfLZdF8

    also because this is a better chat

    people who look at this and think the kinect 2 is just a rehash of the kinect 1...

    This thing looks magical. Wii Fitness what?

    SW-4158-3990-6116
    Let's play Mario Kart or something...
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    CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    So is the one child policy as stupid as it sounds?

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    MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    Just great pictures of Mayor Ford. He may be a dick this gave me a laugh.

    http://gawker.com/39-breathtaking-photos-of-north-americas-most-photogen-1458983349

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    PonyPony Registered User regular
    Also, I mentioned this in the last [chat] but I will mention it again

    people should read this book, Better Humans? by Michael Hauskeller

    it's a fantastic book on the philosophy, ethics, and notions of transhumanism and human augmentation

    everyone should read it, even if (especially if!) you don't really know anything about these subjects and have never really thought about them

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    GimGim a tall glass of water Registered User regular
    Gim wrote: »
    I don't wanna seem like I am so down on china, trashing it in every post. I am having fun, the food is pretty tasty, and it's fun seeing another culture. The hotel I'm staying in is pretty nice and everyone has been very friendly.

    That said if one more person tells me "America doesn't have history" or "I have tried KFC and McDonalds and I prefer Chinese food" (I have heard these two lines from every single Chinese person I have met for more than 10 minutes or eaten with), I may light the air on fire. Which may be possible. This photo was taken 5 minutes ago and it's always like this:
    china_out_window.jpg

    Tell me, have you seen Turok running around?

    2aaa61aac9f76cfdf5bcdb3ccf3a7238.jpg

    Join me, roar, and we can rule this universe as father an-

    Crap, did another reference.

    :fistbump:

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    DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    Okay, so I JUST started watching Don't Trust the B in Apt 23 since it hit Netflix.

    I am sad that I never watched this show while it was on air. The Beek is probably the most amazing thing that has happened.

    IT IS SO GOOD. I TOLD YOU GUYS. SO GOOD.

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    PonyPony Registered User regular
    rob ford may be the least photogenic human being alive

    there are uglier people

    but i don't know if any person manages to look so fucking ridiculous and awful in literally every picture of them

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    RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Couscous wrote: »
    So is the one child policy as stupid as it sounds?

    Combined with strong cultural preferences favouring one gender over the other, pretty much.

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    GooeyGooey (\/)┌¶─¶┐(\/) pinch pinchRegistered User regular
    Couscous wrote: »
    So is the one child policy as stupid as it sounds?

    yes

    it's created a weird population imbalance, ensured that only the rich have more than one kid (the one child policy is really a huge tax on any more than one child) and kind of fucked up china's social norms around dating and relationships and starting a family

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    TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    i've watched don't trust the b but it has guest appearances from Frankie Muniz and David Krumholtz

    interesting

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    GimGim a tall glass of water Registered User regular
    Pony wrote: »
    rob ford may be the least photogenic human being alive

    there are uglier people

    but i don't know if any person manages to look so fucking ridiculous and awful in literally every picture of them

    Besides the alcohol blackout/crackpipe sessions and PR nightmare, is he an effective mayor?

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    simonwolfsimonwolf i can feel a difference today, a differenceRegistered User regular
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    PonyPony Registered User regular
    Gim wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    rob ford may be the least photogenic human being alive

    there are uglier people

    but i don't know if any person manages to look so fucking ridiculous and awful in literally every picture of them

    Besides the alcohol blackout/crackpipe sessions and PR nightmare, is he an effective mayor?

    jesus christ no

    he's an incompetent boob

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    RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Gooey wrote: »
    Couscous wrote: »
    So is the one child policy as stupid as it sounds?

    yes

    it's created a weird population imbalance, ensured that only the rich have more than one kid (the one child policy is really a huge tax on any more than one child) and kind of fucked up china's social norms around dating and relationships and starting a family

    I've read a couple of horror stories concerning the enforcement of the policy as well.

    The short version: A pro-lifer's nightmare made manifest.

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    EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    edited November 2013
    I love explanatory treatises of things that are easily/conceptually demarcated as discrete systems, e.g., car differentials, chemical reactions (quite literally), etc

    or metaphysical outlines, like various political or economic ideas

    Maybe I've just been unknowingly influenced by the Nazi-loving Heidegger but I get frustrated with limited Wikipedia entries (the properties of which are admittedly completely necessary for the sake of functionality) that act like moments in history or politics-as-praxis were discrete Things

    The extending of scientific attributes to personalities and causal chains, to me, clouds the meaning or purpose of Thing X's existence in the first place, which I argue is more important than the categorization or attempt to understand in an academic fashion

    LET SONTAG BE SONTAG DAMMIT

    it emerges from a history and plunges into a future or else it gets the hose again

    Eddy on
    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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    TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    if Dubya can run for a second term, I don't see why Rob Ford can't

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    GooeyGooey (\/)┌¶─¶┐(\/) pinch pinchRegistered User regular
    rob ford should have gone all the way and used public funds to procure crack and smoke it in his mayoral office with his bare feet up on the mayoral desk

    i hate people that half ass things

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